Piranesi Monday-Friday, Radio 4, 12 midday & 10.45pm

Samuel Anderson

(right) reads

Susannah

Clarke’s critically acclaimed novel.

It’s a surreal tale involving the title character who lives in a mysterious, labyrinthian house occasionally visited by his sole human companion, ‘the Other’.

Drama: Siege (Monday-Friday,

Radio 4, 2.15pm) focuses on a hostage crisis at a South London supermarket, as told through the eyes of those trapped inside over a 24-hour period.

In Start The Week (Radio 4,

9am) historian Penelope Corfield, biographer Tristram Hunt and Professor Philip McCann discuss the rise in popularity of the Georgian era.